By Sherman Dorn on October 27, 2007
Occasionally, I have students or colleagues who provide a stream of oddly (and sometimes randomly) connected chunks of material as if the stream is sufficient to carry an argument or thought. In the past I’ve had little trouble understanding why such streams are illogical but great trouble understanding why the author of the stream thinks […]
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From confectionary to connected reasoning
By Sherman Dorn on October 27, 2007
Occasionally, I have students or colleagues who provide a stream of oddly (and sometimes randomly) connected chunks of material as if the stream is sufficient to carry an argument or thought. In the past I’ve had little trouble understanding why such streams are illogical but great trouble understanding why the author of the stream thinks […]
Posted in Random comments, The academic life